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- Fear Incantation
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. …
- Eschers Print Gallery: Filled
Very nice work and article how to fill the white space in Eschers Print Gallery: http://escherdroste.math.leidenuniv.nlThe filled version can be found at …
- James Shirley: Death The Leveller
Death the Leveller The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against Fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: …
- Chris Anderson with Will Hearst: The Long Tail
This is another of the LongNow seminar series, from May 02006 (see http://discuss.longnow.org/viewtopic.php?t=86).This was a very interesting talk – the Internet allows completely new distribution …
- Ken Robinson TED Talk
Ken Robinson in a TED Talk about education etc.Very funny to watch – some interesting thoughts.He is strongly advocating the importance of creativity in our world, therefore necessarily also in school, …
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In The Elder Days Of Art
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- Harry G. Frankfurt: On Bullshit
A small book with an essay of Harry Frankfurt from 1986 – newly published in 2005, where he analyses what bullshit means, how it is dissimilar from bluffing and lies. It comes to the point only in the later part …
- Ken Dychtwald: The Consequences Of Human Life Extension
Another great seminar from the Longnow seminar series.
Ken Dychtwald discusses not the technologies or breakthroughs which might lead to longer life, but considers that the longevity revolution is already taking place now – … - Brian Eno: The Long Now
This is lecture given in the series of seminars of the LongNow foundation.
It contains Brians perspective of the Long Now (and the Big Here), some discussion about his music and especially also his studies for a bell for the …
- What If All In Life Were Free
Very pointed article in Wired 14.04: Geekonomics – Why abundance sucks.Looking at the development of multiplayer games, one can observe the move from utopian worlds where all is free – and therefore …
- Bruce Sterling: Holy Fire
This is a story of a society trying to deal with life extensions: people increasingly are getting older and older by various new medical treatments. This means that the people with power grow older, are not making room for new …
- 5 Plus 5 Plus 5
Here a cute little puzzle: look at this equation
and make it correct by only adding one straight stroke (and it must stay an equation
.
[If you are really desperate, you find the solution … - 5 Plus 5 Plus 5-Solution
Caution – spoiler!
This is the solution for the [intlink id="105" type="post"]5Plus5Plus5[/intlink] puzzle – be careful, this is a spoiler:
Two choices which ‘+’ you change to a 4 with one stroke … - Circle With Points & Intersections: Solution
Caution – spoiler!!!
This is the solution to [intlink id="108" type="post"]CircleWithPoints-Intersections[/intlink].There is an elaborate way to calculate the number intersections like:
given n points on a circle, all connected = n/2 (n-1) lines
for every point, we look at each connection … - Circle With Points & Intersections
Have a look at this circle with 6 points:
Here the lines between the 6 points on the circle intersect 15 times.
Given n points on a circle with all connecting …
- Clouds And Elephants
From an article by Scott Granneman in Securityfocus (on Virtualization for Security):
As I watched the storm approach, I thought about one of the most fascinating bits of weather trivia I ever heard: the … - Web Design F Pattern
Mentioned in an article about a report by Nielsen:
Individuals read Web pages in an “F” pattern. They’re more inclined to read longer sentences at the top of a page and less and …
- Singularity And Religion
From “A Rapture for the Rest of Us” by Glenn Harlan Reynolds:
Jihadists are strapping on suicide bombs today, in the hope of attaining the kind of environment that virtual reality will deliver in … - Steward Brand: Cities And Time
A LongNow seminar from Apr 02005, it is interesting to see him argue the importance of the cities in so many respects. Example: the over population will not very much longer be a …
- Shear Layers
This I heard about in one of the LongNow seminars by Clay Shirky Making Digital Durable: What Time Does to Categories (Nov 02005), which he has taken from Steward Brand’s How Buildings …
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